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Finally, a few tomatoes planted! Work on adobe continues for another three weeks. I have to stop working ten days before the expected start of summer rains which usually come around the 4th of July so the bricks can dry and cure. Haven’t felt like writing or thinking, so this work is my best therapy! Most nights once the sun goes down I work on transcribing my mother’s letters. Today was up and out adding one teaspoon of vinegar per gallon of water (in the 5-gallon buckets) for my 10 new baby roses by 5 AM. All but one plant have leaves now, and one even has a BUD!
I dug two feet of clay out of this trench and then filled with with some dirt on the property that seems softer and does not have Bermuda grass in it - first tomato plants in! (That's one yellow leave there that fell out of the Mulberry tree)Digging beautiful red clay out of this next little garden, will have to layer adobe over the tree roots to help keep them from sucking all moisture when I water plants I HOPE to get in here soonHere's the new walkway between the two 'beds' - I don't have a wheelbarrow - haul all dirt in buckets -when the bricks are good and dry I can go back and add mortar between themAnd when it's nearly 100 degrees out, here's the best place to lay - cool in my little clover patch!
Stop the Storm 
Amazing. Just amazing. You even have Happy Contented Cat. What more could you ask for?
Lisa
Me, disorganized-disoriented attachment disorder? Perfect solution – ORGANIZE THE DIRT! 🙂